UNESCO WHS - Monticello Postcard

UNESCO WHS Serie - Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), author of the American Declaration of Independence and 3rd president of the United States designed Monticello (1769-1809), his plantation home, and his ideal academical village (1817-1826), which is still the heart of the University of Virginia. Jefferson's use of an architectural vocabulary based upon classical antiquity symbolizes both the aspirations of the new American republic as the inheritor of European tradition and the cultural experimentation that could be expected as the country matured. Monticello was the primary plantation of Thomas Jefferson, who began designing it after inheriting land from his father at age 26. The plantation was originally 5'000 acres (20 km2), with Jefferson using the labor of enslaved African people for extensive cultivation of tobacco and mixed crops. Jefferson designed the main house using neoclassical design principles described by Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio and integrating ideas of his own. Name: Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville Site: Monticello Country: United State of America Location: Charlottesville, Virginia Inscription: 1987 Category: Cultural (i)(iv)(vi) Unesco Ref: 442-002 Special Feature: The card has a QR-Code on the backside to navigate for more Informationas about the side